February 07, 2007

About Me


John and Val
Originally uploaded by graspingforthewind.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of me! Here you will find book reviews, funny anecdotes, fantasy / scifi / speculative fiction, musings on life and culture, Christian thoughts, personal journaling, and some other random stuff.

Have I pointed out enough stuff yet? Anyway, on to a little about me. I'm not old, but not really young either. I'm not handsome or plain, nor am I tall, but neither am I short. Sometimes I'm funny, sometimes I'm not, but I am always verbose. Some of my thoughts are scattered, some are well-organized, but all are fun to read. I'm college educated but not too smart, and a trivia buff on the side.

The title of this blog is taken from Ecclesiastes 2:11. "Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun." I like the irony in Solomon's statement.

"His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" - Terry Pratchett


Posted by John on February 7, 2007 03:12 PM | Posted to Blogging
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Comments

well it made ME laugh.
Can I aks where your beach pic is taken? It looks a little too white and sandy to be the florida beaches anymore--we lost so much to the hurricanes.
We live minutes from the beach and love it!

Posted by: Dana on May 1, 2007 10:17 PM

Great review, John!

Posted by: Robert Treskillard on February 18, 2008 05:39 PM

Hi John ... trying to contact you about some book review stuff, any chance you could drop me an email?

Cheers,
Tim

Posted by: Tim Lebbon on March 20, 2008 12:56 PM
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